As we wind down our month on Social Business, it seems our experts are just heating up. This week we've got a few hot topics covered: Community as a cornerstone, killing your e-mail, social networking in the workplace and even quantum mechanics.

Joe Shepley (@joeshepley): Although Enterprise 2.0 and social business have been hot topics among practitioners and more forward-thinking organizations for some time now, it seems like we’ve crossed a tipping point of sorts: I’ve encountered very few organizations in any industry over the last few months that aren’t at least beginning to dabble in E2.0.

And amidst this surging momentum for all things E2.0, the idea of community is in danger of becoming the next content, or process, or case, terms whose proper (and bounded) meanings have been blurred to the point that they can mean almost anything to almost anyone.

Which is unfortunate, because to me, community is perhaps the most important concept for social business and E2.0, even more so than the use of E2.0 tools, capabilities or applications (my apologies to Dr. McAfee).

Let me share a recent experience that really brought the importance of community for E2.0 home for me.

We do it here at NewsGator and it works. Friday is our no email day. Although we are very social already, the point of #SocialFriday is to eliminate all email unless it is external or truly confidential. This helps us break a habit that has been drilled into knowledge workers for the last few decades. Even though we’re power users of our own stuff, as we should be, certain departments tend to participate in social computing more actively than others just like any organization. #SocialFriday forces the issue — as well as the transparency, efficiency and productivity benefits that come with it.

#SocialFriday works because it affirms our enterprise social network, Social Sites 2010, as the “one place” we go to for our internal communications and collaboration. Many organizations introduce social business solutions but are too timid to go all the way. In practice, if not by fiat, email remains the official channel for their important information. This slows social business adoption and its desperately needed benefits. Imagine if we’d never let email be an official medium… we’d have to dial the phone for all official business!

Troy Allen: Years ago, when I first started working with customers on the concept of Intranets and corporate portals, people looked to the World Wide Web for a definition of what they wanted. In a discovery session with a client, one of the VPs said, “You know that new thing out there….the one where you can move your stuff around…you know, MyYahoo? That’s what we want.”

The customer was trying to put together an intranet to support a self-serve human resource site and a general knowledge base for all employees. Based on the VP’s statement, I dug deeper into what he wanted and why. The number one reason for wanting the “MyYahoo” functionality was because “it’s cool and everyone talks about how they can setup their own personal pages.”

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